Wordpress.com switches to Nginx? 4 million page views per day

Server NGINX
#1

Wordpress.com which serves 4 million page views per day now appears to
have Nginx 06.29 as its frontend.

http://whois.domaintools.com/wordpress.com

Wordpress.com is one of the top 100 most visited website in the States
according to Quantcast getting 4 million page views per day.

http://www.quantcast.com/p-18-mFEk4J448M
http://www.quantcast.com/wordpress.com

Read this article for details:

#2

Thanks for sharing the news. They have been using LiteSpeed for a while.

Last year in WordCamp, they mentioned that they are using more than
100 servers running WP.com, so this is great news for Nginx to go
mainstream in the US.

Congratulations!

-Liang

kingler from 72pines

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:10 PM, HonDev D.

#3

Just to point out, WordPress.com has 4 million page views, which will
likely have more than 4 million HTTP requests…

http://wordpress.com/stats/traffic/

Anyways, sounds like a lot of big media sites are using Nginx :slight_smile:

-Liang

#4

4 million page views doesn’t include, assets, or admin access by each
user it only includes people actually going and reading an article.

That being said, congratulations Bob. That’s a whole lot of HTTP
requests.

P.S. your sites have nice themes.

#5

We do WAY more than 4 million HTTP requests a day at Mochi Media w/
Nginx, powering mochiads.com, mochibot.com, etc… and we’ve been
using Nginx for well over a year :slight_smile: Good news!

(though we manage to do this with far fewer servers)

-bob